Distal upstream tyrosinase S/MAR-containing sequence has regulatory properties specific to subsets of melanocytes

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-48

  Porter, Susan D ^a   Hu, Juncai ^a   Gilks, C Blake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Melanocyte; S MAR; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; EYE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0033008426     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1999)25:1<40::AID-DVG5>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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